Oil, water do mix

Your article about academia in Coeur d’Alene raising consciousness over water use and conservation worldwide, and the one about the lack of bidding for Iraq’s offer to open their oil reserves to exploitation, has me musing over how these two resources now mix, if only virtually in this not-so-virtuous world of getting and spending in a spent world.

Many voices today eschew the notion that there are limits to resources for the health of this planet atmospherically for user-friendly endurance of the humankind.

This puts the U.S. of us squarely against the whole of us globally. I am put in mind of the impact of the Exxon Valdez debacle back when that drama pointed up the fact that water and oil, and by the way all life-forms, do not mix.

That Iraq now would rather be exploited sooner than later, hints that it sees the hand of some “intangible” writing on the wall – the phrase “Mene, mene, tekel parsin” that spells a doom for those who dare. That is, oil profits will buy a fair amount of nuclear development. But it will take a lot of precious water to keep those future reactors cool.

So, we see “who really is on first; and what’s on second.”

Harry Bright

Spokane